10/11/2013

Justice Kennedy Weighs In Against Two-Year Law School

In a two-part article, the Wall Street Journal (sub. req.) reports on an address by Justice Anthony Kennedy to students at the University of California Washington Center. Justice Kennedy cast a skeptical eye on suggestions that the law school curriculum be shortened to two years:

I don’t think the right way to address it is to shorten the curriculum
[which provides] the foundation for what I call the language of the law,
the language that lawyers speak to each other. I can pick up the
telephone and talk to an attorney two generations removed from me, and
[yet] I know him, I know her. We talk this [common] language that we
learn in the law school. And this is the envy of the rest of the world, I
assure you, it’s a tremendous national resource.

Kennedy also:

Revealed that he has his law clerks review blog posts from legal academics about cases for which the Court has granted cert.

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Justice Kennedy Weighs In Against Two-Year Law School

In a two-part article, the Wall Street Journal (sub. req.) reports on an address by Justice Anthony Kennedy to students at the University of California Washington Center. Justice Kennedy cast a skeptical eye on suggestions that the law school curriculum be shortened to two years:

I don’t think the right way to address it is to shorten the curriculum
[which provides] the foundation for what I call the language of the law,
the language that lawyers speak to each other. I can pick up the
telephone and talk to an attorney two generations removed from me, and
[yet] I know him, I know her. We talk this [common] language that we
learn in the law school. And this is the envy of the rest of the world, I
assure you, it’s a tremendous national resource.

Kennedy also:

Revealed that he has his law clerks review blog posts from legal academics about cases for which the Court has granted cert.